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But they were startled and terrified, thinking they saw a ghost.

And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."

And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it.

He himself was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

But to all who have received him—those who believe in his name—he has given the right to become God's children

—children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband's decision, but by God.

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

He confessed—he did not deny but confessed—"I am not the Christ!"

I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel."

And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining—this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

But Jesus was speaking about the temple of his body.

But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people.

The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,' but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.'